Today is Muslim World Music Day!

“Muslim World Music Day is an online effort to identify and catalog all the recordings of Muslim music in the world. It will be a step towards making this culturally significant body of work readily available to people around the globe for study and enjoyment.” Read More

I wanted to do more for this. Things have been busy here, but really I have no excuse. Anyways, try to participate in some way, at least by checking out their site linked above. Here are some great videos to get you started!

Debu – Sarayda (Palace Troubadour)

Debu is a group of mostly Americans living in Indonesia (more about them a couple posts down). In this video, they are singing in Turkish. For some of the lyrics and translation, open this video in youtube and see the comments section.

Abida Parveen – Jab se tu ne mujhe diwana

Abida Parveen lives in Pakistan, and is a legendary singer of Kafi and ghazal.